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A new organ to replace it has been funded by the Stoller Charitable Trust, run by Oldham-based businessman and philanthropist Sir Norman Stoller, whose company invented the tubular bandage.

Pippa Tickell, from the company, said the project would be in honour of her husband Kenneth, a leading British organ builder who died in 2014.

She said: “The instrument is not yet finished as there is still three months of tonal finishing to be completed before the instrument can sing its true tune.

“The removal of the scaffolding and hoardings around it merely allow us to see what we will have to wait to hear.

“But while the organ could not have been built without all these talented craftspeople, the real heroes of the job are the Tickell team who have weathered the storm of losing their leader in July of 2014 to create the firm’s third and largest cathedral organ to date.

“They have spent months on site and in the workshop designing, crafting and building the whole instrument with its dual mechanical and electric action.”